B Sai Praneeth Crashes Out Of Japan Open Semifinal

India’s marketing campaign on the ongoing Japan Open got here to an finish as B. Sai Praneeth misplaced his males’s singles semifinal conflict to World no. 1 Kento Momota on the $750,000 event on Saturday. Praneeth, who had recorded a straightforward win over Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto to enter the semis, misplaced 18-21, 12-21 to Kento Momota in a match that lasted for 45 minutes. The unseeded Indian began off the match on an important be aware as he took an preliminary Three-1 lead within the first jiffy. Nonetheless, Momota got here again with an important battle and took an 11-Eight lead on the mid-game break.

Praneeth, who had been in nice contact within the event up to now, tried to up the ante and earned some factors however finally misplaced the sport 18-21 in 23 minutes.

Within the second recreation, the top-seeded Japanese did not led Praneeth take a protracted lead from the beginning and overturned a 6-9 deficit to make it 12-9 with the assistance of six straight factors.

From there on, the world primary raced to a seven-point lead and finally received the match 12-21 in 22 minutes to make it to his second consecutive last. He’ll tackle both Jan O Jorgensen or Jonatan Christie on Sunday.